barracks
barracks
plural noun
plural noun
- [often treated as sing.]a large building or group of buildings used to house soldiers
兵营，营房
the troops were ordered back to barracks.
部队被撤回了兵营。
■(barrack)a large, ugly building
外观简陋的大房子
that great barrack of a house.
那幢丑陋的大房子。
- late 17th cent.: barrack from French baraque, from Italian baracca or Spanish barraca 'soldier's tent', of unknown origin
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